Natural Length Writing/Posts

Consistency is one thing editors and proofreaders aim to achieve in certain ways. A style should be used in a certain way throughout a piece of writing. For instance, was "#" or "No." used to represent "number," and if so, if it's repeated, is it the same format?

Some people like consistency in photo size and word length. In a print world that makes sense, because it's hard to change sizes--the production cost might change if you add or remove pages. But for the web, it doesn't matter so much, except for what people expect or accept.

That's why I'm not sure there should be a required length for online writing. Each publication or blog, sure, can have a style where each piece tends to be a certain length. But even then, I don't think it would bother me if the length was different for each post or article.

All that should matter is if there's enough in the content of the piece of writing that the reader will enjoy or benefit from it.

I don't often follow blogs, but the one that caught my attention for a while is probably one of the shortest: Smart, Pretty, & Awkward.

Who Knows

Idioms can be wonderful or annoying often depending on if you understand them or not. Some frustrating moments of learning a new language are wondering why words aren't meaning what they usually do—and it turns out to be an idiom that might be hard to look up in a dictionary.

Today I used the phrase "who knows." And, as usual, I wondered if that was just a family or local thing and if people use it. But it turns out it is what I thought it was. Wiktionary has a definition for it.

 It’s awesome when one or two words can mean a large amount of words.